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Ableton Live 10 Won't Open Mac
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Hoping someone has some advice. I'm getting the following message in a dialogue box, that causes the Ableton splash screen to hang after just trying to create the First opening live set:'A serious program error has occurred.
Live will shut down after this message box is closed.
Please restart live and follow the instructions in the report a crash lesson that will appear in Live's help view.'
After closing down the dialogue box and trying to start Ableton again, the same thing repeatedly happens.
I've also tried restarting the machine and same again.
The latest version of Ableton 9 is also installed.